‘Huge class imbalance’ in access to creative degrees in UK
Graduates from privileged backgrounds almost six times more likely to work in creative industries than poorer people with only GCSEs
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What problem are you really trying to solve with TNE? Are you sure?
Universities often say they are pursuing transnational education for both love and money. But that can make for a strategic muddle, warns Stephen Thomas
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Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings 2024: methodology
This is how we assess the data and produce the tables for the Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings, based on information from 171 institutions
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UK research ‘foundations are crumbling’, Cranfield v-c warns
Dame Karen Holford tells MPs that financial stress caused by visa restrictions are hurting R&D ecosystem while Aria bosses outline their strategy to Lords
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Diana Beech to head new policy institute at City St George’s
London Higher chief executive moves into new role focused on translating interdisciplinary research into public policy solutions
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Queen Mary moving Palestine talk to smaller venue ‘weak-willed’
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has been giving a series of London lectures on ‘genocide in Gaza’ and international law
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Latin America University Rankings 2024: results announced
Brazil back at number one as new metrics reveal country’s research strength
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‘Managerialist’ overreach ‘biggest problem for academics’
Universities’ instinct to ‘de-risk everything’ makes things worse for everybody, says academic émigré
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European business schools capitalising on UK’s recruitment woes
Faltering UK recruitment is being capitalised on by business schools in the continent
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Can Alibaba’s university courses help China outpace the West?
Chinese multinational makes inroads in Europe as technology giants compete to get their tools on university curricula
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Account for sex and gender in UK health research, urges guidance
Framework for UK health funders will require applicants to explain how they will consider and distinguish sex and gender in their work
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There is more to the marketisation of English HE than neoliberalism
Political interventions on a host of issues suggest marketisation’s opponents are wrong to see neoliberalism as the root of all evil, says Gerbrand Tholen
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Israeli budget cuts ‘devastating’ for universities
Wartime austerity could slash research output and disproportionately hit disadvantaged students, sector leaders warn
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Cambridge launches £48 million PhD studentship fund
Investments from Trinity College Cambridge and university will support about 300 PhDs over a decade
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Trump presidency with ‘axes to grind’ spells danger for US sector
Academics warn that a Trump ‘administration of retribution’ could affect many aspects of higher education, including loan forgiveness, diversity efforts and student protests